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Show Judge Whitecotton Dies Of Apoplexy End Comes Suddenly As He Returns From Commencement Exercises Provo, May 31. Judge J. W. N. Whitecotton a well known lawyer and Jurist of Utah for nearly thirty yearn died suddenly at his homo here tonight to-night from a stroke of apoplexy. Ho had Just como from commencement commence-ment exercises at Proctor Academy in this city, whe.ro his youngest son, G. Otis Whitecotton, was graduated This was tho third stroke of opop-loxy opop-loxy ho had suffered. Uy a strange coincidence, It viiis at commencement oxorclsos at tho University of Utah, a year ago, when his son Wendell wns 'being graduated that Judge Whitecotton suffered his second attack. at-tack. Tho first ono camo upon him two years ago. Since the second stroko a year ago Judgo Whitecotton had been In impaired im-paired health. 'A year ago ho was addressing tho graduating class at tho university when suddenly his volco faltered nnd ho sank to tho floor. Ho was very HI at that tlmo .but whllo lie nover regained complete robustness, robust-ness, ho recovered sufllclently to return re-turn to his law practice. Of lato tho 1udgb had had no intl inatlon of a return of his trou'do ar.d was fooling particularly woll when ho wont to thn cxjiclses tonUht at (ho Procter A.Jideny. 11 lock a live Interest In tho proceeding and chatted chat-ted animatedly with lrlcnda at the conclusion of tbo program. With mombers of hU family ho wnlkcd homo a distance of several blocks. A few minutes after ho had reached reach-ed home ho win stricken without n warning. Ten mlnuton nftorward, at It o'clock, ho died, unable to combat the third attack nl tho disease. It wns a torrlblo shock to Mrs. Whitecotton and tho young sen who had Just rccolvcd his diploma nt Prcc tor. Thoy woro with hlra nt tho rnd. The Judgo Is also survived by threo sons. ' ' Judgo Whitecotton was f7 years of ago and had hcon a prominent flguro in tho stato over since ho came hora from Kansas 'u 18S9. H was born In Union countj Kentucky In March, 1859. In early manhood ho went to Kansas nnd was graduated from Ot-nwa Ot-nwa university in that state In 1881. Two years later ho married Miss Agnes Isabella Craig of Oabornc, Kansas. Ho studied law and vns admitted to tho bar in Delolt, Kansas Kan-sas In 1889. Tho snrao year ho came to Utah and was admitted to practice In tho First district court for tho territory ter-ritory of Utah. Ho wob admitted to practice before tho- UJah supremo court in 1890 and tho United States supremo court in 1897. Tho Judgo has mado his homo In Provo almdst continuously slnco coming com-ing to Utah. Ho had served as city nttornoy ot Provo nnd as city attor-noy attor-noy of Plonsant Grove, American Fork and Sprlngvlllo at various times At tho time ot his death he was a member of tho board of trustees of tho U. A. C. In 1900, nnd again In ll'OC, ho wns nominated on tho Democratic Dem-ocratic ticket for Justice of tho stato supremo court. Ho was a member of both tho Utah Stato and .American Bar Associations. Judgo Whitecotton was actje and prominent In tho Masonic order, being be-ing a thirty-second dogreo Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shrlnor. He wns also a member of tho Odd Follows, Fol-lows, tho Knights of Pythias and tho ' Maccabees. I |